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Modeling the role of fathers in child anxiety
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Stuart, Kaela L
ORCID® Identifier
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8202-1654
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429359980
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2015, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Abstract
The current study investigated links between child, and paternal and maternal anxiety, and family process factors, over a nine year period. Specifically, we examined the role of parental anxiety, partner conflict, attachment security and parental autonomy granting in explaining changes in child, father, and mother anxiety symptoms. The primary goal of the study was to examine the long-term impact of fathers in child anxiety, which has been under-studied in the literature. We utilized data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N=252), from when target children were in first grade, fifth grade, and fifteen years of age. We tested identical longitudinal path models for both mothers and fathers and found that both models were a good fit for the data. We also found that lower attachment security to fathers and mothers, and a restriction of maternal autonomy granting, predicted increases in child anxiety over time. Additionally, we found that partner conflict explained the association between earlier and later parental anxiety, which is a novel finding in the literature. Together, these findings suggest that fathers play an important long-term role in child anxiety, similar to that of mothers, even as children move from early childhood into adolescence.
Committee
Kathryn Kerns, PhD (Advisor)
Manfred van Dulmen, PhD (Committee Member)
Chris Flessner, PhD (Committee Member)
Josefina Grau, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
56 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
anxiety, child, adolescence, father, mother, partner conflict, attachment, autonomy granting
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Stuart, K. L. (2015).
Modeling the role of fathers in child anxiety
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429359980
APA Style (7th edition)
Stuart, Kaela.
Modeling the role of fathers in child anxiety.
2015. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429359980.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Stuart, Kaela. "Modeling the role of fathers in child anxiety." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429359980
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Modeling the role of fathers in child anxiety by Kaela L Stuart is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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